Snow Needed to Moisture Parched Illinois Fields
Farmers in Ogle, Lee, and Polo counties urge timely snow and rain as soil moisture shortfalls approach field capacity. Experts note two-tenths inch of water per inch of soil, with current deficits from drought, mild winter, and last summer’s dryness. Forecasters predict rain turning to snow and cooler temperatures, delaying spring growth.
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Stan Eden
Ogle County Cooperative Extension Service
Lee County
Jim Morrison
Lee County Cooperative Extension Service
Polo
Larry Acker
Acker
Morrison
Rush Surgery Rush Surgery prompts CCC program outlays
USDA reports net outlays for the Commodity Credit Corporation across fed programs including feed grains wheat rice cotton tobacco dairy soybeans honey wool and disaster assistance, outlining funding levels and scope of support for farmers nationwide.
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USDA
Commodity Credit Corp
Pigs Deliver Births in Illinois Meishan Genetic Program
In Champaign Illinois after a lengthy adjustment to life in America a group of Meishan pigs from China began delivering litters in a U S Department of Agriculture and Iowa State University genetic program to boost litter sizes. Four of 21 sows in the University of Illinois facility produced litters this month with more than a dozen others stressed and aborted last year amid a pneumonia outbreak killing a boar.
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Champaign, Ill
America
U.S
University of Illinois
David McLaren
Diana Bidner
China
Illinois
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Iowa State University
Alternative crops discussed and agronomy week events
The Lee County Extension hosts a Feb 7 workshop in Amboy with Emerson Nafziger on feasible alternative crops such as canola buckwheat sunflowers sorghum and wheat and Darrel Good on marketing prospects for corn and soybeans. Also news on the 1989 Farm Management yearbook availability and upcoming Agronomy Day in Ogle County with Dr Bill Peterson, plus Illinois Cattlewomen officers and the IPM insect pest management guide C899-90 available for $2 from the Amboy extension office.
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Amboy
Lee County Cooperative Extension Service
Congress
Washington, D.C
Ogle County
Bill Peterson
U. of I. A
Ogle County Farm Bureau
University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service
Lee County
W. Wasson Road
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